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piglet

nounattested in dialogue

  • //ˈpɪɡ.lət//

A young swine, one not yet mature.

noun

  1. 1

    A young swine, one not yet mature.

    Near-synonyms: shoat, porkling, porklet, porket

    Very little was this piglet, And of course was not a big pig,

Etymology

From pig + -let (diminutive suffix). Attested from 1855. Displaced Old English fearh.

Forms

plural
piglets
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).